With the acceleration of technological change, however, there is a need for Technology Foresight to enter the agenda of SMEs, as well as of public organizations that are less resource-rich than governments, such as municipalities, hospitals, or civic communities.
Such an investigation enables a thorough assessment to be made of the academic response to technology foresight.
It also assesses the potential for a collaborative EU DPA technology foresight task force.
So far, Technology Foresight has been an expensive luxury for most organizations.
It should be underlined that this study was not focused on technology foresight analysis (TFA).
This paper builds upon this literature to introduce Functional Analysis into the field of Technology Foresight.
Privacy: terrorism and effects on liberties H Technological development: means of transportation; nanotechnology; 3D printers, cyborgs, CCTV… Access to technologies; economic cost; drones Technological foresight; analysis of impact of new technologies in security *** S/M/L Push and pull factors for terrorist use and for a counter-terrorism use.
To increase flexibility, a more systematic embedding of Future-oriented TecombiningapproachesFTA)—cofbining approaches oForesighthTechnologyogy Assessment (TA) and forecasting into science, technology and innovation governance is repeatedly called for [1, 8, 9, 10, 11].
The similarities and development challenges of foresight, Technology Analysis (TA) and risk assessment methodologies are discussed in the light of the empirical material gathered from projects performed at VTT.
e-Government keywords such as "electronic government", "open government", e-government, e-gov, "electronic administration", e-administration, and FTA keywords such as foresight, "technology futures analysis", TFA, Future-Oriented Technology Analysiss", FTA, "future studies", "strategic planning", "competitive intelligence", "scenario planning", Delphi, roadmap.
We shall adopt this terminology here, so as to avoid debate about whether individual studies do or do not represent one or other type of Foresight, Technology Assessment, Strategic Prospective, or other futures-oriented approach.
